Harris v. Midwestern Indemnity Co.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages arising out of an accident in which plaintiff’s automobile was struck by the truck of defendant’s insured. From an adverse judgment on the merits plaintiff appeals.

The accident occurred during hours of daylight in a rural area on U. S. Highway 71 a few miles north of Bunkie, Louisiana. At that location the highway is straight and level, is paved with asphalt 24 feet in width and runs east and west, although it eventually leads south to Bunkie. A graveled road, known as “Bayou Boeuf Road’' runs into the highway from the north forming a…